Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Shirakami-Sanchi' has mentioned 'Forest' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| This mountainous area includes the last virgin forest of Siebold's beech which once covered most of northern Japan. | WIKI |
| Permission is needed from Forest Management to enter the heart of the Shirakami-Sanchi. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Location 2 Highlights 2.1 Primeval beech forest 2.2 Anmon no taki (Shadow Gate Falls) 2.3 Animals 2.4 Tsugaru Quasi-National Park 2.5 Shirakami-dake 2.6 Yxc5xabkyxc5xab-no-Mori (xe6x82xa0xe4xb9x85xe3x81xaexe6x9dx9c) Shirakami festival 3 See also 4 References 5 External links | WIKI |
| It has the largest remaining virgin beech forest in East Asia, and is a remnant of the cool-temperate beech forests that have covered the hills and mountain slopes of northern Japan since eight to twelve thousand years ago. | WIKI |
| The location near the Sea of Japan is characterised by a distinct heavy-snow environment, enabling the area to retain a complete ecosystem of stable climax beech forest, which has disappeared from most of the world | WIKI |
| Primeval beech forest[edit] | WIKI |
| Apart from beech trees, Katsura, Kalopanax, Japanese Hop-hornbeam and other species of tall deciduous trees are found in the forest. | WIKI |
| The Shirakami-Sanchi region also contain large areas of forest not covered by the World Heritage listing, and the level of preservation in these areas is not as high as in the central listed area. | WIKI |
| Shirakami-Sanchi World Heritage Property is a wilderness area covering one third of Shirakami mountain range with the largest remaining virgin beech forest in East Asia. | UNESCO |
| The beech forest of Shirakami-Sanchi is a climax forest established in this manner and maintains various elements of Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora. | UNESCO |
| A unique plant community with diverse flora, including undergrowth dominated by evergreen Sasa kurilensis, it is also a habitat for rare bird species such as the black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), and large mammals such as the Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) and Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicas), which requires a diverse forest environment including old-growth forest. | UNESCO |
| As these and other species are all interacting as functional elements of the ecosystem, the property keeps the complete ecosystem of stable climax beech forest. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ix): Shirakami-Sanchi is dominated by beech accompanied by diverse vegetation that escaped simplification during the earthsxe2x80x99 glacial stages by shifting its distribution towards the south, resulting in a virtually undisturbed, pristine climax wilderness forest. | UNESCO |
| The undisturbed wilderness condition of the area is wild and rare in eastern Asia with no other protected area in Japan containing a large unmodified beech forest like that found in the property. | UNESCO |
| The extent of its pristine forest without extrinsic development sets the property apart in densely populated, long-inhabited Japan and across Asia. | UNESCO |
| A member of the genus dominant in cool-temperate forests in the northern hemisphere, Sieboldxe2x80x99s beech (Fagus crenata) comprises the mono-specific canopy and the forest contains the main species of the ecosystem including black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus), Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicas), Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) and dwarf bamboo (Sasa kurilensis). | UNESCO |
| The forest ecosystem reflects the history of global climate changes and the heavy-snow environment, and is an outstanding example of ongoing processes in the development and succession of communities of plants together with the animal groups that depend on them. | UNESCO |
| The property is thus very important for studies on terrestrial cool-temperate ecology, particularly on Eurasian beech forest ecosystem processes, and for long-term monitoring of the climate and vegetation changes. | UNESCO |
| Shirakami-Sanchi contains a large pristine, non-fragmented beech forest. | UNESCO |
| The property includes all elements necessary to maintain the ecosystem function of beech forests and the area of the property, 16,971 ha in total, is of an adequate size to ensure the long-term existence of the beech forest ecosystem. | UNESCO |
| Consequently, the property preserves this extensive area of pristine forest with little human intervention. | UNESCO |
| The property includes a number of designated protected areas: Shirakami-Sanchi Nature Conservation Area under the Nature Conservation Law (1972), several Natural Parks under the Natural Parks Law (1957) including Tsugaru Quasi-national Park, Shirakami-Sanchi National Wildlife Protection Area under the Wildlife Protection and Hunting Management Law (2002), and Shirakami-Sanchi Forest Ecosystem Reserve under the Law on the Administration and Management of National Forests (1951). | UNESCO |
| Development activities are restricted across the property by the designation as a Forest Ecosystem Reserve where the pristine forest is preserved without timber production and is left to follow naturexe2x80x99s course without human interference. | UNESCO |